This is a temporary list of people who are either mentioned in the articles on this site or who have written about Brautigan. I will be classifying them shortly. For the moment, I have simply put them in alphabetical order.

Edward Abbey
Keith Abbott
Kobo Abe
Peter Ackroyd
Phoebe-Lou Adams
Robert Adams?
George Ade
Marie-Christine Agosto?
Richard Aldington
Nelson Algren?
Donald Allen
Martin Amanshauser
Kiko Amat
Smiley Anders
Sherwood Anderson?
Maya Angelou?
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster

Kent Bales?
Barbara A. Bannon?
John F. Barber?
Julian Barnes?
Jean-Baptiste Baronian?
John Barth
Donald Barthelme
Charles Baudelaire
Richard Conger Beasly?
Simon-Pierre Beaudet?
Harold Beaver?
Samuel Beckett
Thomas D. Bedell?
Robert Benchley?
Peter Berg
Ted Berrigan
John D. Berry?
Carolyn F. Blakely?
Robin Blaser?
Robert Bly?
Caroline C. Bokinsky?
Jay Boyer?
Malcolm Bradbury
Helen Brann?
Ianthe Brautigan
André Breton?
Anatole Broyard?
Lenny Bruce
Carl Brucker?
Janusz K. Buda
Jimmy Buffett?
Laura Burges?
William S. Burroughs
Leonard Culver Butts?
Joseph Butwin
George Gordon Byron

Lucy Cadogan?
Herb Caen
John Cage?
Erskine Caldwell
Maria Callas?
Andrew Carnegie
Don Carpenter?
Raymond Carver
Charles Casey?
Neal Cassady?
Christine Chapman?
Steve Chapple?
Russell Chatham?
Marc Chénetier?
Noam Chomsky
Robert Christgau
Sandra Cisneros?
John Clayton
Joel Coen?
Joseph Cohen?
Bruce Cook?
John R. Cooley?
Robert Coover?
Gregory Corso?
Peter Coyote
John F. Crawford?
Robert Creeley?
Jeff Crouch?
Robert Crumb
Valentine Cunningham?
Melanie Cüpper?
David Curran?
John Cusatis?
Edward Cutler?

Edwidge Danticat?
Guy Davenport
Pierre Delattre
Don Delillo?
Paul Desruisseaux?
Diane di Prima?
Philip Dick
Emily Dickinson?
Richard Dietrich?
John Dillinger
Thomas M. Disch?
John Ditsky
Hugo Dittberner?
Philippe Djian
Helen Donlon?
John Donne
Brad Donovan?
Edward Dorn
Fyodor Dostoevsky?
Larry Duberstein
Robert Duncan
Deanna Durbin
Bob Dylan?

Umberto Eco
Thomas R. Edwards?
Albert Einstein?
Gyrdir Eliasson?
Lewis Ellingham?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louise Erdrich
William Everson?

Phil Fax?
Kenneth Fearing
Raymond Federman?
Michael Feld?
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Joe Flaherty?
Kersten Flenter?
Peter Fonda?
Jennifer Foote?
Benjamin Franklin
Christopher Fraser?
Charles Frazier?
Robert Frost

William Gaddis?
David Galloway
Edward Gannon?
William Gass
Jean Genet?
Bruce R. Gillespie?
Allen Ginsberg?
Jeffrey S. Golden?
Andrew Gordon
Gerald Graff
Sydney Greenstreet?
Zane Grey
Larry Grimes?
Emmett Grogan

Charles Hackenberry?
Simon Hall?
Sue Halpern?
David Mike Hamilton?
Dashiell Hammett
Peter Handke?
Arlen Hansen?
Joy Harjo?
Jim Harrison
William Hartston?
Gerald Haslam
Ihab Hassan?
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Brad Hayden?
William Thomas Hearron?
Mark Hedborn?
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway?
Josephine Hendin
Neil Hepburn?
Patricia Hernlund?
Hermann Hesse
Jack Hicks
Jack Hirschman
William Hjortsberg?
Bill Hoagland?
Jimmy Hoffa?
Gerhard Hoffmann
William Hogan?
Brian Hogg?
John Clellon Holmes
Patricia Holt?
Dennis Hopper?
Brooke K. Horvath?
Catharine Hughes?
Kathryn Hume

Farhat Iftekharuddin?
Lawrence Ingrassia?

Mick Jackson?
Frederic Jameson?
Alfred Jarry
Robinson Jeffers
Katie Jeffreys?
Ha Jin?
Dennis Loy Johnson?

Franz Kafka
Bob Kaufman?
Yasunari Kawabata
Greg Keeler?
Garrison Keillor?
Frank Kermode?
Robert Kern
Jack Kerouac
Jan Kerouac?
Ken Kesey
Kevin Killian
Barbara Kingsolver?
W.S. Kinsella?
August Kleinzahler?
Jerome Klinkowitz?
Hans Kloos?
Philip C. Kolin?
James Koller
Jerzy Kosinski
William Kotzwinkle
Jaroslav Kušnír?
Joanne Kyger?

Jim Langlois?
Thomas Lask?
Harvey Leavitt?
Gordon Legge
John Lennon?
Jeffrey Lent
Martin Levin?
W.T. Lhamon?
Gerald Locklin
Ron Loewinsohn?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Barry Lopez?

Amin Maalouf?
Norman Mailer
Keith Maillard?
Peter Manso?
Edward Martin?
Richard A. Martin?
Michael Mason?
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Carol A. McAllister?
LArry McCaffrey?
Cheryl McCall?
Ed McClanahan?
Michael McClure?
Carson McCullers?
Edwin McDowell?
Colin McEnroe?
Tom McGuane?
Scott McKenzie
Rod McKuen
Duncan McLean?
Marshall McLuhan
James Mellard?
John Mellors?
David Meltzer?
Herman Melville
Barney Mergen?
Henri Michaux
James Murray Miclot?
Lee Milazzo?
Erik Miller?
Henry Miller
Joseph Mills?
Yukio Mishima?
Herbert Mitgang
David Montrose?
Michael Moore?
Patrick D. Morrow?
Ferdinand Mount
Malcolm Muggeridge
Michael P. Mullen?
Haruki Murakami?
Patrick J. Murphy?

Vladimir Nabokov?
Vijay Nambisan?
Brian Nation?
Jack Nicholson
Roderick Nordell?
Albert H. Norman?
Robert Novak?

Flann O'Brien?
Kenzaburo Oe
Frank O'Hara?
Günter Ohnemus?
Kevin O'Kelly?
Charles Olson
Kevin Opstedal?
Eve Ottenberg?

Ernesto Parra?
Arthur Parumba?
Kenneth Patchen
Phil Patton?
Walker Percy
Leon Pero?
Clarence Peterson?
Bo Pettersson?
Dennis Petticoffer
William Pfaff?
Rod Phillips
Paul Pintarich?
Darryl Ponicsan?
Peter Prescott?
Manfred Pütz?
Thomas Pynchon

Raymond Queneau?
Juan Quintana?

Philip Rahv?
Dudley Randall?
Jessy Randall?
Barbara Raschig?
Kenneth Rexroth
Arthur Rimbaud?
Kevin Ring
Pamela Ritterman?
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Gwen A. Robbins?
Tom Robbins
Brooks Roddan?
Hans-Peter Rodenberg?
Michael Rogers
Mary Rohrberger
Margaret Roiter?
Carl E. Rollyson?
Ann Ronald
Kate Rose?
Philip Roth?
Bertrand Russell
Charles Russell?
Lawrence Russell?

Albert Saijo
J.D. Salinger
Sally Sampson?
Carl Sandburg
Ed Sanders?
Aram Saroyan
William Saroyan?
Gary Scharnhorst?
Neil Schiller?
Neil Schmitz
Stephen Schneck?
Arthur Schopenhauer?
Michael L. Schroeder?
Jennifer Scheussler?
Arian Schuster?
Thierry Séchan?
Kenneth Seib?
Mark Seinfelt?
James Seymore?
Laura Shapiro?
R.Z. Sheppard?
Doo-ho Shin?
Terril Shorb?
Mark Siegel
Barry Silesky?
Leslie Marmon Silko?
Michael Skau?
John Skow?
Gordon E. Sleuthaug?
Barb Smith?
Mason Smith?
Zadie Smith?
Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag
Gilbert Sorrentino
Jack Spicer?
T.K. Splake
Judy Steele?
John Steinbeck
George Steiner?
John Stickney?
Peter Stockwell?
Jack Trevor Story?
David Streitfeld?
Lois A. Strell?
Janet Strothman?
William Stull?
Ronald Sukenick
Ed Sullivan?
Benjamin Svetkey?
Suzanne Mitchell Sweatt?
Rob Swigart?

Junichiro Tanizaki?
Earl Tannenbaum?
Tony Tanner
David M. Taylor?
John Thomas?
Craig Thompson?
Hunter Thompson?
Toby Thompson?
George H. Thomson
Henry David Thoreau
Peter Thorpe?
Rip Torn?
Jeremy Treglown?
Tavis Eachan Triance?
Barnard Turner?
William O. Turner?
Mark Twain?

Richie Unterberger?
J. Uschuk?
A.S. Utschig?

Rogier van Bakel?
David L. Vanderwerken
Boris Vian
M. Villar Raso?
Thomas A. Vogler?
Kurt Vonnegut?

Chris Waddington?
Joe Wagner?
Anne Waldman
Cheryl Walker?
Isaak Walton?
Eric Warren?
Lew Warsh?
Alan Watts?
Auberon Waugh
Lew Welch?
Nathanael West
Philip Whalen
Thomas Reed Whissen
Walt Whitman
Roland H. Wiegenstein?
Dan Williams?
Hugo Williams?
Jonathan Williams?
William Carlos Williams?
Kevin Williamson
Lonnie L. Willis
Helmut Winter
Diane Witosky?
Virginia Woolf
Lawrence Wright?
Arthur Wrobel?

Jonathan Yardley?
John Yohalem?
Barry Yourgrau?

Louis Zukofsky

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